Friday, November 30, 2018

Last Saturday Auburn
Head Coach Gus Malzahn thought he had his War Buzzard ready to play some Saban
Murderball. Indeed. They kept the game close through
halftime. When the teams returned to the
field, the Tigers kept it close until the last two minutes of the third quarter
when DeVonta Smith caught a 40-yd TD pass from Tua. From that point forward, Bama kept pouring it
on hapless Auburn.

Coach Saban said, “Don’t
ask me why, but it doesn’t seem like we had the right kind of energy in the first
half. Don’t know if it was anxiety or
what it was, but we seemed to settle down and play better in the second half.”

In the locker room at
the half, Saban told his team, “We’re going to have to change the way these
guys think and get after them because now they think they can win.”

The college football
world is wondering if, based on the games against The Citadel and the
“Barners”, the Tide can be beaten. I
will acknowledge that everyone watching the SEC Championship Game who isn’t a
Buckeye or a Sooner fan will be rooting for Jawja to beat Bama.

With the Wolverines
falling to the Bucknutts 62-39 last Saturday, the College Football Playoff Committee
is now forced to have a serious conversation about who will be ranked No. 4 on
Sunday, December 2nd, the day after Bama and the Bulldawgs clash in the SEC
Championship Game.

If Georgia is defeated,
I think Oklahoma gets the fourth spot over the Bucknutts because they were
horribly embarrassed by Purdue losing to the Boilermakers 49-20.

I’m putting the cart
before horse here. First, the Tide must
decimate the Bulldawgs. That’ll be one mean
feat.

What if Coach Smart
makes the game interesting by putting in backup QB Justin Fields at some point
in the game? What if the game suddenly
rides on the performance of Bama’s special teams? Kicker Joseph Bulovas is a dismal 4 for 16 FG
attempts and has blown 5 extra point attempts.
Georgia’s Rodrigo Blankenship has been deadly accurate all season long.
Georgia is better prepared to meet the Tide’s strength this time around.

Bulldawg tailback
Elijah Holyfield adamantly insists, "Last year has nothing to do with this
next game coming up.” Oh? Second-and-26 is what people remember the
most from last year’s National Championship Game.

The Dawg Nation may
want to blot that exhilarating play from their memory, but the Tide faithful
carry it with them to this day. Hell, it’ll
live forever in Bama’s storied history.

Jawja’s last win over Bama was way back in 2007.

On Thursday, UGA Alumni tweeted an awkward
invitation to all the SEC schools to #BeADawgForADay. It didn’t turn out well. Here’s one example from War Buzzard:

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

POTUS calls the bile pouring out of the media "Fake News". But what is really happening? Is it all out and out lies? Completely fabricated stories with no basis in reality? Here's something to chew on.

“Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.” ~ Neil Postman

One of Postman's most influential works is Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. In Amusing, Postman argued that by expressing ideas through visual imagery, television reduces politics, news, history, and other serious topics to entertainment. He worried that culture would decline if the people became an audience and their public business a "vaudeville act." Postman also argued that television is destroying the "serious and rational public conversation" that was sustained for centuries by the printing press.

Postman was a progressive, a liberal but in the classic sense and he foresaw the dangers that faced American culture due to manipulation of our news/information providers.

There is no doubt that much of what we see in the MSM is outright manipulation. This is presented through journalism schools as "Advocacy Journalism." Definition:

Advocacy journalism is a genre of journalism that, unlike propaganda, is fact-based, but supports a specific point of view on an issue.

IMHO advocacy journalism accomplishes the exact same purpose as propaganda. It is more insidious and due to the dumbing down of the population, more effective. Out and out lies can be exposed for what they are, but fact-based manipulation just leads to arguments and division.

Friday, November 23, 2018

The state of Alabama got
two holidays this week: Thanksgiving Day
and the 83rd Iron Bowl.

The Auburn-Alabama
rivalry has always been a heated and bitter contest, but something is coming
this time: REVENGE.

Coach Saban won’t have
to remind his players about last year. Nope. No sir. They’ll want their reckoning.

The Crimson Tide has
never lost two in a row to Auburn. Defeat has been followed by a victory scoring
an average of 25 points and will likely be up by that much by halftime.

War Buzzard fans, buoyed
by their defeat of the Tide in last year’s Iron Bowl contest, believe they can ruin
their most hated rival’s chances of getting into the College Football Playoffs.

Did they hear what ESPN
analyst Trevor Matich said about Saturday’s
Iron Bowl? “Literally, if a spaceship comes down and abducts the entire Alabama
team, Auburn would have a chance.”

Head Coach Gus Malzahn
is 2-3 against Coach Saban’s Murderball in his six years with the Tigers.

Bama QB Tua Tagovailoa
is not Hurts, Blake Sims or Jake Coker.
He broke A.J. McCarron’s single season touchdown record against The
Citadel last Saturday passing for 340 yards and 4 TDs. On the season, he’s
thrown for 2,865 yards, 31 TDs and just two INTs. He’s also added four rushing
TDs.

Monday, November 19, 2018

The last time the Cleveland Browns won a game
was on December 24th, 2016. They finished
the 2017 season without a single win making them the second team in league
history to finish with a 0–16 record.
Last month Head Coach Hue Jackson got the axe.

Ask any Cleveland fan about their team’s
execution and they’ll answer, “I’m in favor of it.”

Browns GM John Dorsey, according
to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, is “open to hiring a woman as
Cleveland’s next head coach.”

Schefter inferred the team “would like to
interview former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for the job.”

Former Pro Bowler, Joe
Theismann, once said, “Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”

So, word got back to the team and Dorsey was
forced to issue a statement saying, "Our
coaching search will be thorough and deliberate, but we are still in the
process of composing the list of candidates and Secretary Rice has not been
discussed.”

Rice, who has been eyed as an eventual candidate to replace the bungling
Roger Goodell as NFL Commissioner, posted to her Facebook account that she was “not ready to coach.”

To put things in perspective, and I know this is hard for the Dawg
Pound peeps, here’s Indianapolis Head Coach Jim Mora back in 2001 after his
team stunk up the place losing to the Niners in a game that saw his Colts allow
20 unanswered points while their fourth-year QB, Peyton Manning, tossed four
interceptions:

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Remember when the vaunted Nate Silver and his election
prognosticators at FiveThirtyEight on the morning of Election Day 2016 declared
Hillary Clinton had a 71.4 percent chance of being elected president?

Joe Concha of The Hill wrote, “Nate was arrogant. His numbers were all over the place. The title of ‘guru’ is now gone. Silver’s career will survive, but never again
will he be held in any revered regard.”

At noon on Sunday, those crystal ball readers tweeted a three-year-old map showing the most disproportionately
common Thanksgiving side dishes by region in America. Turns out there were only 931 respondents. That’s less than 20 people per state. I think this thing is bogus and needs a
dressing [pun intended]. Are we prepared to then say the most popular
dessert on the West Coast is fruitcake?

Someone replied, “I'm a lifelong
Californian who has never had salad on Thanksgiving. This is an odious lie.” Yet another tweeted, “Why bring a salad to
Thanksgiving when you can just step up and directly tell your family that you
hate them?”

All I know for sure is you need to have plenty of vegetables
on the table: carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.

American humorist Erma Bombeck famously said, “I come from a
family where gravy is considered a beverage.”

No matter what side
dishes find their way to your Thanksgiving dinner table, here’s to a heaping
helping of love, joy and fond memories.

Once upon a time the inhabitants of a community were perfectly
satisfied to know which member among them was generally understood to be the
village idiot. Nowadays the community feels a need to validate that idiot by
electing them to Congress.

Nobel Prize winner for
literature, George Bernard Shaw once said, “He knows nothing and he thinks he
knows everything. That points clearly to
a political career.”

Shaw would certainly
know since he wrote “What
Socialism Is” in 1890 for the Socialist Fabian Society.

Swalwell’s not crazy
because he loathes President Trump. He’s
crazy because he took to Twitter to opine about gun control in a manner that
went far afield from the Democrat talking points we’ve become accustomed to
hearing.

A win for journalism. Trump can’t stop the First Amendment, no matter how much he hates it. Now let's pass the Journalist Protection Act to keep them safe from the violence that Trump's rhetoric helps instigate, & as @Acosta said, "let's get back to work."https://t.co/9uYmk7tcNZ

Our village idiot didn’t
read the full
report which clearly said, “[Kelly] did not rule on CNN’s claim that the
revocation of the journalist’s pass violated his rights under the First Amendment.” CNN lawyers told the network more hearings
were “likely to take place on the matter in the coming weeks.”

Don’t try to explain
things to stupid people.That’s a job
for a jackass whisperer.

Saturday, November 17, 2018

John Kasich never
missed a chance to mention that his dad was a mailman. If he had a nickel for
every time he mentioned his father’s job, he might be able to retire with the
equivalent of a generous postal service pension. The references have been a
staple of his public addresses and interviews for years and invariably made everyone
loathe this NeverTrumper.

In March of 2016, “Little
Marco” Rubio ended his bid for the presidency.
Kasich found himself stuck in fourth place in a three-man race. Voters were not flocking to Kasich’s campaign
and his irksome refusal to drop out of the race drew the consternation of many
in the GOP.

Having earned a paltry
154 delegates and winning only one
primary, his home state of Ohio, he reluctantly
suspended his campaign two months later.

With the 2018 Midterm Election
now over, the 2020 White House race officially gets underway in New Hampshire
and the other early primary and caucus states.

The first politician to
visit the Granite State was none other than “Pancake Johnny”. He thought the best way to win votes was to eat
his way across America. His hypnotizing
appetite was something to behold. Now
that he’s no longer Ohio’s governor, he’ll have plenty of time to flap his gums
and give
tutorials on how to eat a pickle.

During a visit to New
Hampshire he was asked whether he’d run in 2020:

John Kasich on his failed 2016 presidential bid: "I think [it] was a tremendous success"

Friday, November 16, 2018

College football Saturdays
down South are serious business.
Nothing, but nothing
interferes with it. This, however, is
Cupcake Saturday in the SEC so you are cleared to tackle those pesky items on
your Honey-Do List.

After the Citadel
Bulldogs were crowned 2016 Southern Conference Champions, Head Coach Brent
Thompson said of the 2018 schedule which included the Crimson Tide, “These
games are important for many reasons and they allow us to provide our
cadet-athletes with once-in-a-lifetime experiences. I’m excited that our team will have the
experience of playing in front of more than 100,000 fans against one of the
premier teams in college football.”

By any objective
measure, this contest will be one of the biggest mismatches of the year in
college football. The Citadel rode buses nearly 8 hours from Charleston, SC to Tuscaloosa
to be out-manned at virtually every position. For the Bulldogs this game is not
about winning; it’s about the money.

One Citadel player, 2006
alum Porter Johnson, chose to have some fun with the overwhelming odds his Dogs
face this weekend:

This is just disrespectful. You mean my Alma Mater only as a .1% chance to beat Alabama this weekend....really @espn? We couldn't even get at least 1%? C'mon man...😀 That's alright, we are going to shock the world this weekend. Go Bulldogs!! pic.twitter.com/eD1tRMOayj

Last week the
Mississippi State Bulldogs were the victim of ludicrous officiating by the SEC
referees.

On Bama’s first
possession of the game there appeared to be a fumble by Damien Harris before
his knee touched the ground that was never reviewed. Minutes later the Tide scored at TD.

At the end of the first
half, Missy’s sophomore RB Kylin Hill scored a TD only to have it called back
when WR Deddrick Thomas was penalized for an illegal block in the back. Replays
shown in real time and slow-motion showed the Tide defender was never touched.

The booth’s failure to
a review a clear fumble and the official’s phantom flag for a penalty that did not happen gave plenty of ammo to the
throng of Bama haters who frequently flap their gums claiming it isn’t fair
that teams have to compete with Alabama and
the refs calling the game.

Mississippi State
Athletic Director John Cohen complained to the Conference saying, “I’ve
personally communicated with the coordinator of football officials, Steve Shaw,
and SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. Both of them assured me that Saturday’s game
with Alabama is being fully reviewed and they also stated that the official
issues will be identified swiftly and dealt with directly.”

As a dyed-in-the-wool
Bama fan since the 1950s, I cannot
defend the zebras sorry officiating nor dispel the charges of “Bama Bias”
and “Alabama Collusion”.This team is
either good enough on its own or its not.The zebras should not do anything to cheapen their season.There.I said it.Now, on to the
cupcakes of The Citadel and the impending decimation of War Eagle in the Iron
Bowl.

Initial reports said
the woman involved was Avenatti’s estranged wife Lisa Storie-Avenatti however
her attorney disputed the report saying, “Ms. Storie-Avenatti was not subject
to any such incident on Tuesday night. Further, she was not at Mr. Avenatti’s
apartment on the date that this alleged incident occurred. My client states
that there has never been domestic violence in her relationship with Michael
and that she has never known Michael to be physically violent toward anyone.”

The woman who actually
was involved in the alleged physical altercation reportedly scrambled from the
apartment where the incident occurred and was spotted on the sidewalk holding
her hands over her eyes while shouting into her cell phone. “I can’t believe
you did this to me.”

Five minutes later, Avenatti
arrived at the apartment complex and yelled repeatedly, “She hit me first,”
then, “This is bullshit, this is fucking bullshit.” The alleged melee occurred
after the woman attempted to pick up her belongings and called 911 after
tempers ran hot.

“We’re told her face
was ‘swollen and bruised’ with ‘red marks’ on both cheeks,” TMZ
reports.

While the creepy porn
lawyer is attempting to burnish his credentials as a potential 2020 Democrat
presidential candidate, he is facing mounting legal entanglements, including a
possible criminal investigation by the Justice Department. Senate Judiciary
Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has asked for a criminal investigation
into whether Julie Swetnick and Avenatti conspired to provide false statements
to Congress and obstructed a congressional investigation during the
confirmation process for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Grassley wrote in a
letter to the Justice Department that Swetnick and Avenatti made serious
allegations that required significant resources to investigate. However,
Grassley says information from media interviews and elsewhere indicates their
statements “likely contained materially false claims.”

The Vermont Democratic
Party canceled Avenatti's appearances for Friday and Saturday following his
arrest, and it will refund all ticket sales, according to VDP Communications Director
Christopher Di Mezzo.

The decision to cancel
the events was made "almost immediately after the news broke," he
said.

The creepy porn lawyer’s
aspirations may just have suffered a setback.What a pity. (stifles laughter)

Monday, November 12, 2018

Europe’s self-proclaimed “strong man”, Emmanuel
Macron, hosted newly elected President Donald Trump in 2017 when he visited
France for the July 14th Bastille Day celebration at Dôme des Invalides where Napoléon is entombed.

Two months earlier, Macron
celebrated his historic presidential victory at the Louvre as the youngest
French ruler since Napoléon himself. He stood beside the Louvre’s
Pyramid on the square Cour
Napoléon, once the home of the kings of France.
Rather than entering the square to the sounds of “La Marseillaise”, the
French national anthem for hundreds of years, he ordered
the playing of “Ode to Joy” by German composer Ludwig von Beethoven.

When Russian President Vladimir
Putin visited Macron, he hosted him at Versailles, the sumptuous palace that
became the symbol of France’s absolute monarchy.

I think you get where
I’m going here. Macron equates himself as one of a caste of befeathered
emperors and perfumed prince bishops that ruled Europe for centuries.

It doesn’t end there. Like
Louis XIV, the Sun King who said “L'état, c'est moi” (I am the state), Macron
is egotistical enough to court the Illuminati-esoterica
crowd at Bilderbergcomparing
himself to the Roman god Jupiter who weighs his rare pronouncements
carefully and sits above the fray of regular affairs. What a
schmuck.

Eighteen months into
his term as France’s president, Macron’s approval ratings continue to slip, with
only 26 percent of French people saying they have confidence in him.

The reason the French
are disenchanted was outlined in a published report by the Los
Angeles Times on October 3, 2017:

“He alienated conservatives by engaging in an ugly public
spat with the army, France's most beloved institution, over his proposal to cut
nearly $1 billion in defense spending in order to meet EU deficit targets. The
army chief, Gen. Pierre de Villiers, resigned in protest after Macron suggested
in newspaper interviews that he was angry at having his decisions questioned.”

“Last month, he annoyed liberals when he called opponents
of his economic reforms "lazy"—recalling an incident from 2016 when,
as Hollande's economy minister, he retorted to a pro-labor demonstrator who
jeered at his well-tailored suit: ‘The best way to afford a suit is to work.’"

“The elitist moniker has stuck to Macron as he pushes ahead
with his first salvo in the reform battle: undoing some of the protections guaranteed
to French workers, perhaps the most pampered labor force in the industrialized
world.”

Speaking at the Arc de
Triomphe in Paris at a World War I commemoration ceremony attended by President
Trump and 70 other world leaders, Macron suggested nationalism could lead to
the same death and devastation seen during that war.

“Nationalism is a
betrayal of patriotism. By saying our interests first, who cares about the
others, we erase what a nation holds dearest, what gives it life, what makes it
great and what is essential: its moral values.
I know there are old demons which are coming back to the surface. They
are ready to wreak chaos and death. History sometimes threatens to take its
sinister course once again.”

You don’t have to be a
supporter of President Trump to feel the outrage of such a smug lecture. Maybe
Mr. Macron should have first reflected on the nearly 117,000 Americans who made
the supreme sacrifice in World War I or the 29,000 who perished on the French
coast of Normandy in Operation Overlord on D-Day during World War II who saved
his country about nationalism.

American nationalism
animated our mighty republic to save France and the world twice during those
conflagrations.

Instead of displaying a
shred of gratitude for being liberated by the first superpower in world history
uninterested in conquest he gave America an imperious dressing down. My father was on Omaha Beach on D-Day.

When President Ronald
Reagan commemorated the 40th anniversary of D-Day, he stood on the very spot
where Allied soldiers had stormed ashore to liberate Europe from the yoke of
Nazi tyranny. Speaking to the veterans
who climbed the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc he said, “You are men who in your lives
fought for life and left the vivid air signed with your honor.”

On June 5, 1940 Nazi forces penetrated French Gen. Maxime
Weygand’s forces on the Somme River and began to march south toward Paris, reaching
the capital on June 14. The city had
been abandoned by the French government and the Nazis were allowed to march down
the Champs-Élysées as Parisians watched in shock and sadness.

Were it not for
America, the French would be speaking German. It’s no wonder an old joke
persists even today about the French military:
one of white flags, hands thrust aloft and tails tucked between their
legs in retreat.

In an interview
with The New York Times published on Thursday,
Ocasio-Cortez called the transition into becoming a lawmaker "very
unusual, because I can’t really take a salary. I have three months without a
salary before I’m a member of Congress. So, how do I get an apartment? Those little
things are very real."

She and her “partner”
have been “just kind of squirreling away and then hoping that gets me to
January.” This “squirreling away” she speaks of─would that be the money she
cheated a co-worker out of?

According to the New
York Post, Cortez made $560 in tips during the Cinco de Mayo celebration in
2017. When it came time to split the
tips, she only gave the waitress $50.
After complaining to the manager of the bar, Cortez was forced to double
the take to $100.

The waitress who was
rooked by Cortez said, “It says so much about her character. From that point on I wouldn’t talk to her. I couldn’t look at her.” According to the published report, Cortez
could not be reached for comment.

Now, for someone who
graduated from Boston University with a major in economics and international
relations, you’d think she would plan for her financial future for the long
term.

Apparently, like her
mentor Sen. Bernie Sanders, she’s an authentic airhead. Former Senator Joe
Lieberman said of Cortez, “She seems likely to hurt Congress, America and the
Democratic Party.”

Rather than joining the
Democratic Socialist Party she should have joined the party made famous by the eccentric
Jimmy McMillan of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party. This fellow is so bizarre, Saturday Night
Live featured him in a skit.

Cortez did herself no
favors when she posed for an interview in a $3500 ensemble designed by Gabriela
Heart and black stilettos from Manolo Blahnik.
At least she wasn’t wearing Chanel.

Like Venezuela’s
Nicolas Maduro, once Socialists gain power, they have closets filled with
expensive clothes while their countrymen go hungry. That’s how the Socialism thing works.

Is the wunderkind of
the Left too good to sleep in her office like Speaker of the House Paul Ryan,
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Reps. Dan Donovan, Gregory Meeks, Lee Zeldin,
John Katko and Brian Higgins?

Shoot, she could save
anywhere between $25,000 and $30,000 that isn’t claimed at tax time and she
would get free cable, electricity and janitorial service.

UPDATE:Welcome readers of Bad Blue Uncensored
News.We wish to thank our Vets for
their service on this Veterans Day weekend and to Doug Ross for linking to this
post.

Last year the Tide
needed to score 14 points to come from behind against Hail State on their home
turf.They did.The final score was 31-24.

Mississippi State’s QB,
Nick Fitzgerald, believes he can replicate those three strong quarters and
marshal his Bulldogs offense to a victory at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Fitzgerald knows that
last year has no bearing on today’s game in Tuscaloosa, but he’s confident
knowing they held the lead until the fourth quarter giving him the motivation
he and his team will need if they hope to beat Bama on the road.

These two teams have
done battle on the gridiron going all the way back to 1896 and the series
history shows the Crimson Tide has owned the Dogs 80-3-18.ESPN’s Matchup Predictor gives the Boys from
Tuscaloosa an 89.7% chance of victory.

No cupcake, MSST was
ranked No. 18 last week in the College Football Playoff rankings and rose to
No. 16 after drubbing War Eagle 23-9.

Paul Finebaum said last
week the only way Bama suffers a loss on its way to the playoffs is if Tua
Tagovailoa gets injured.“I think we’ve
come to that conclusion and it didn’t take 10 weeks to do it,” he said.

CBS analyst Gary
Danielson believes the only two teams that have a shot at beating Alabama this
season are Clemson and Georgia.Kirby
Smart’s Bulldawgs are currently two touchdown underdogs. We’ll know if
Danielson was right on December 1st in Atlanta when they clash in the SEC
Championship Game. Dabo will seek revenge against Saban’s Murderball if the
fates pair them in the CFP Playoffs.

Hail State’s Head
Coach, Joe Moorhead, doesn’t give a whit about their 10-game losing streak to
the Tide saying, “We have to concentrate on the things we need to do.We’re going to have to have great
practices.We have to have great urgency
and body language.Our scout team will
have to be great because it’s almost impossible to replicate what Alabama does
in all three phases.”Sounds like a plan
to me.

Every team that goes
into Davis Wade Stadium is subjected to 61,000 infernal Bully Bells.The Hail Staters truly believe those damn
things intimidate the opposing team.Well,
they don’t.They’re annoying as
hell.There won’t be any cowbells in
Bryant-Denny Stadium.No siree.

The Bulldogs will be
treated to the sounds of the roar of a rampaging elephant over the stadium loudspeakers
and AC/DC’s “Hell’s Bells” on every Bama third down.Oh, and let’s not forget the Athletic
Director is once again allowing “Dixieland Delight” to be played at the beginning
of the fourth quarter.That alone will
strike fear into Coach Moorhead’s boys and spur the Crimson Tide on to victory.